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Food Friday: Klik with Bunnuck in Moose Cree

Posted July 26, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

Pepperoni pizza. Club house sandwich. BLT. Chili. Salad wrap. All sounds like pretty good food, right? Now, instead of using regular meat or tofu in those dishes, just add Klik. Klik? What’s that, you say? Well, think of it like SPAM’s sister, or the Canadian version of SPAM.

Photo of the Day: Red Cross ready in Moose Cree

Posted July 25, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

The Red Cross in Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario off the James Bay coast is teaching the community to Be Ready for disasters.The Red Cross is participating in the Gathering of Our People, an annual festival celebrating First Nations cul...

The Red Cross Round-up

Posted July 24, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. CHINA: The Red Cross Society of China is responding to the needs of thousands of people affected by the 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struc...

A saviour from the floods

Posted July 22, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

Guest Entry by Calli Forbes, Communications Coordinator in Alberta "Elizabeth Vigueras is my family’s saviour." That's what Carlos Ramirez told us as he shared his family's experience with recent flooding in High River, Alberta. On Thursday, Ju...

Tech Talk: Social volunteers take action in Alberta flooding

Posted July 18, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

With Alberta flooding, the Red Cross was not only inundated on the ground with requests for support, but it was also inundated online. Our social monitoring shows that more than 19,000 people tweeted the Red Cross in the first two weeks, and hundreds...

The Red Cross Round-up

Posted July 17, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

The Round-up offers a weekly sample of what our sister Red Cross Societies are working on around the world. SYRIA: The Syrian Arab Red Crescent is working with the Danish Red Cross to offer psychosocial support to 60 families in a communal shelter...

A golden anniversary amongst muddy waters

Posted July 14, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

Guest post by: Calli Forbes Alex and Doris consider themselves lucky, despite the damage their High River home suffered in recent flooding. I had the opportunity to meet them in my work with the Red Cross in Alberta, where they told me not of what...

Rebuilding in High River, Alberta

Posted July 13, 2013 by Red Cross Talks - Red Cross blogger

Guest post by Siobhan Reid, Communications Student After a day spent meeting residents, distributing supplies and providing information to the people of High River, I began to observe trends in the community’s need assessments. From duct tape to dum...

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